𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 [Z.S] ✔︎

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"I don't want you interfering with my projects again, you hear me? I'm your boss, not your friend when we're in this place, Mr. Horan." Zayn let all the anger come out of his mouth as he spoke to Niall face to face.

The anger and the urge to punch him was still too much.

"I'm sorry, sir." The boy muttered, not wanting to look him in the eye, sorry for his behaviour.

"Now, I want you to go to YOUR area, and say that they can start again as that is my indication. If I see that they are not reassembling my robot right now, you will suffer the consequences. I will go in half an hour to do it with Liam, Katy and Louis, prepare what I will need; parts, tools. Take my computer with it, go and do what I said."

The boy stormed off, letting out inaudible whispers of curses, one after another for being angry at his idiot boss, meanwhile, Zayn was noticeably relaxed knowing they were going back to work. He called his co-workers, Liam, Katy and Louis, who would help him in the creation of his project.

He grabbed his sketchbook and put a couple of pens in his bag on the right side of the white coat he was wearing, put on his glasses and grabbed his tablet from the table.

He walked around the campus waving to anyone who would wave to him, which was most people he saw. He reached his area, seeing his workers moving like ants around his anthill.

"Zedd, where are the others?"

"Miss Katy is on her way down with Mr. Liam, sir, Louis is late."

"Thank you. You can all have lunch!
From now on, no one is allowed in here unless authorised, so put your things away and get out." All the guys started to do as Zayn said, and in less than five minutes the room was empty.

Zayn tidied the place up a bit, ready to start moulding his creation.

It didn't take about fifteen minutes before his mates were already gathered in the room with his card that resembled a key.

"Zayn?" The female voice snapped him out of his trance, turning around to see his two friends standing in the doorway.

"Welcome, you can leave your stuff on the racks, you can come and start helping me."

The brunette looked at his drawings again, wanting to find out which of all his drawings most resembled him.

"Stressed?" Katy asked again, this time behind him, looking at the drawings.

"Too much, the pieces are ready, the program, which would be his brain, Louis has, although that would be at the end. What we need to start with is to assemble it completely, from head to toe, they arrived yesterday and all the pieces are ready and labelled in those boxes. You will help me assemble each one, testing it until it can walk without being noticed that it is artificial intelligence, it will take time, but between the three of us we can do it well and in less time"

"Okay." Liam inhaled sharply, making Zayn frown, "No, it's not a bad plan, it's just a lot of work.

"That's why the three of us are here, isn't it, I'm counting on you?"

They both nodded a smile.

And they got down to work.

It took them three years to finish it, and after those three years, a lot of things happened.

They started assembling the robot piece by piece, paying attention to every detail. Some time later, when it was ready, they began to test it, taking its first programme, which would be the physical movement, making it walk as if it were a baby, moving its joints and playing with it until the movements resembled a normal human, and it came out perfect.

The next thing, was to start putting skin, they started with a special silicone that was quite soft in Zayn's opinion, thanks to the artificial heaters that Liam put on his cheeks, forehead, hands, ears, torso and legs, it could feel like the skin of a real person; Zayn was in charge of making the crotch himself, he wanted it to be as realistic as possible.

Then, leave it inactive for a month as it was time for a rest, more like a temporary rest, after which time it was resumed.

The last step, to put his heart in its place, and the brain where it goes.

That was what they were doing right now.

"Do you have the audios yet?" Louis asked after chewing the slice of pizza he was holding in his mouth.

"Can you play his voice?" Zayn put his computer aside, looking at Louis who nodded with a smile.

"I can only do it if you pass me the audios. I set up his voice with a program I made years ago, it's easy."

"Thanks Louis." Zayn took his phone to send him all the audios he had in his files, very well saved for this occasion.

"Ok, I'll do this at home, I'll go to rest, Katy and Liam will come earlier tomorrow, don't stay awake for so long, tomorrow we'll adjust the details and we'll put their memories." The brown-haired man got up from his chair and put his things in his backpack.

"Good night Louis." He said goodbye without taking off the smile on his face, he was excited.

"Good morning, Zayn." He corrected.

Louis walked out of the place leaving Zayn alone in his work area.

He stood up, heading to the capsule where the metallic body of his creation rested.

His great love standing face to face with his again.

"Soon we'll be together again, sweetheart, soon." He murmured, kissing the pink silicon lips, leaving them there for a few seconds before pulling back with a smile on his face.

He was almost ready.